Status Updates From Emancipation(s) (Radical Th...

I am shocked by how good essay 6 is, however I owe it to Laclau to point out his own hypocrisy showing in his EU-federalism. For his subjective stance misses the corollary of his theory: trans-national unions ALSO reinforce "fully fledged identities" and are therefore not NECESSARILY guarantors of sustained radical democracy vis-a-vis national identities!

I'm clearly overreaching with this book, since I don't know much about either marxism or structuralism, but the question of reaching towards universality from my particular and limited viewpoint is mesmerising to me. Laclau's examples of Christian emancipation and the problem of evil are wildly stimulating in this context, and there's this curious notion of an empty signifier that can signify the system as a totality

I am excited to be slowly working my way via a systematics towards the "necessity" of Lacanian universal antagonism. This is starting well.